Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.